BEIJING: China summoned the US ambassador to Beijing over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, media reports have said.
China’s Foreign Ministry lodged a protest with US Ambassador Nicholas Burns over the unannounced visit by Pelosi to Taiwan which Beijing calls its “breakaway province.”
“China will take necessary and resolute countermeasures and we mean what we say,” the Chinese diplomat told the US ambassador.
Stating Pelosi’s trip an “unscrupulous move,” the Chinese diplomat said that the US should have “prevented her (Pelosi) from going against the historical trend but instead indulged her and colluded with her which exacerbates the tension in the Taiwan Straits and seriously damages China-US ties.”
The US, meanwhile, said there was no need to turn the visit into a crisis, with Pentagon spokesman John Kirby emphasising America supports the status quo.
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